Department of Education

This reports on the activities and accomplishments of this office from April 1, 2018, through September 30, 2018. The audits, investigations, and related work highlighted in the report are products of our mission to identify and stop fraud, waste, and abuse, and promote accountability, efficiency...

Our audit objectives were to determine whether College of Southern Nevada completed verification of applicant data in accordance with Federal requirements and accurately reported verification results to Federal Student Aid (FSA). The audit covered award year 2016–2017 (July 1, 2016, through June 30...

Our audit objectives were to determine whether MiraCosta College (MiraCosta) completed verification of applicant data in accordance with Federal requirements and accurately reported verification results to Federal Student Aid (FSA). The audit covered award year 2016–2017 (July 1, 2016, through June...

The objective of our audit was to determine whether the Utah State Board of Education (Utah Education) implemented a system of internal control over calculating and reporting graduation rates sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that reported graduation rates were accurate and complete. We...

The Privacy Office did not have controls to ensure that it timely and effectively processed Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) complaints during our audit period. The Privacy Office had a longstanding and substantial backlog of unresolved FERPA complaints that prevented timely and...

Our objective was to determine whether the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) and Federal Student Aid’s (FSA) overall information technology security programs and practices were effective as they relate to Federal information security requirements. The Fiscal Year 2018 Inspector General...

The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 requires the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General to identify and report annually on the most serious management challenges the Department faces. The Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 requires the...

The objective of our audit was to evaluate the Office of Special Education Programs’ (OSEP) implementation of its differentiated monitoring and support (DMS) component under the results driven accountability initiative. We found that OSEP needs to enhance its implementation of the DMS component...

Our audit determined that significant improvements are needed in the Department’s Office of Indian Education’s oversight and monitoring of grantee performance and use of funds for the nearly $100 million in Indian Education Formula Grant program grants awarded annually. Without adequate oversight...

In this audit, we sought to determine whether the Department had effective oversight of the programs provided to charter schools and whether it sufficiently monitored State educational agencies to ensure that (1) procedures and internal controls were in place to identify the causes for charter...